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It was long since Here

He firmly believed in his recovery

A few days before he had escaped death in the royal palace as if by a miracle, and he owed his deliverance to the woman he loved

In the Teoddess had ceased to persecute him took possession of his mind

True, his blind eyes had been unable to see her htest thrill of horror had seized him in its presence In Alexandria, after his departure fro him Else hoould she have per upon the verge of an abyss, and a wave of her hand would have sufficed to hurl hiulf?

But his swift confession, and the transformation which followed it, had reconciled hiods; for they appeared to him in forms as radiant and friendly as in the days of his boyhood, when, while Bias took the helh the canal and the Bitter Lakes, he recalled the visible world to hissun, Phoebus Apollo, the lord of light and purity, gazed at hiolden chariot, drawn by four horses, and Aphrodite, the embodiment of all beauty, rose before him from the snowy foam of the azure waves De prosperity, above the swaying golden waves of the ripening grain fields and bestowing peace beside the domestic hearth The whole world once more seemed peopled with deities, and he felt their rule in his own breast

The place of which Bias had told him was situated on a lofty portion of the shore Beside the springs which there gushed froreen palrant betharan About a thousand paces from this spot the faithful freedman pitched the little tent obtained in Tennis under the shade of several tall pals lived the same family of Amalekites whoetables in little beds, and the ypt through the peninsula of Sinai to Petrea and Hebron The daughter of the aged sheik whose ed wonised the Bia, and prouest of the tribe